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    Involvement of German students in NS organisations based on the archive of the Reichsstudentenwerk

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    Stichprobenartige Daten, die das Reichsstudentenwerk von 1933 bis 1942 gesammelt hat, werden genutzt, um Aussagen hinsichtlich des Prozentsatzes der Studenten, die in Nazi-Organisationen mitarbeiteten, zu machen. Ob diese Daten des Reichsstudentenwerkes reprĂ€sentativ sind, wird an Hand allgemeiner VolkszĂ€hlungsdaten fĂŒr die gesamte Studentenschaft ĂŒberprĂŒft. Aussagen können nur mit grĂ¶ĂŸter Vorsicht gemacht werden. Die AktivitĂ€ten von Studenten in Nazi-Organisationen wurde als sehr hoch ermittelt. Nur wenige Kerndaten, Geschlecht, Geburtsort und Status des Vaters, waren aus dem Datenmaterial als wichtig zu identifizieren, um die Nazi-Verbindung zu bestimmen. Logische Varianzanalyse wird verwandt, um die Relation der erklĂ€renden variablen Faktoren zu ĂŒberprĂŒfen. Die Methode des 'Iterative Proportional Fitting' wird benutzt, um das Engagement der Gesamtstudentenschaft in Nazi-Organisationen abzuschĂ€tzen. Marginalen Daten der Stichproben, die nicht verhĂ€ltnismĂ€ĂŸig zur Gesamtbevölkerung waren, wurden dabei kontrolliert. (KW)'Sample data from the Reichsstudentenwerk collected from 1933 to 1942 are used to make inferences on the percentage of students involved in Nazi-Organisations. On the basis of available census data the extent of representativity of this body of data for the whole student population is checked. Inferences can only be drawn with great care. Involvement of students in Nazi-Organisations was found to be very high. Of all the variables from the data set only a few - sex, birth cohort and father's status - prove to be important for determining Nazi affiliation. To check for the interrelations of the explanatory variables logistic analysis of variance is used. Finally the method of iterative propotional fitting is applied to estimate the Nazi involvement of the whole student population by controlling for the marginals of the sample not found to be equal in proportion to the total population.' (author's abstract

    "True Believers" or Numerical Terrorism at the Nuclear Power Plant

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    For decades, there has been a heated debate about whether or not nuclear power plants contribute to childhood cancer in their respective neighbourhoods, with statisticians testifying on both sides. The present paper points to some flaws in the pro-arguments, taking a recent study prepared for the political party "BĂŒndnis 90 / GrĂŒne" as a specimen. Typical mistakes include an understatement of the size of tests of significance, disregard of important covariates and extreme reliance on very few selected data points.

    Analyzing panel data with non-metric dependent variables: probit models, generalized estimating equations, missing data and absorbing states

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    SIGLEAvailable from Bibliothek des Instituts fuer Weltwirtschaft, ZBW, Duesternbrook Weg 120, D-24105 Kiel W 620 (59) / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekDEGerman
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